Edward Norton Quotes
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
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We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.
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In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful shows and hit records. Now, I have to say, the '90s are the best decade of my life. I've done the best work and, in a funny way, I'm enjoying the most success... more than in the '70s.
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You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.
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Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.
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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
